Key Directions in Legal Education: National and International Perspectives

Emma Jones · Fiona Cownie

Feb 2020 · Routledge

About this eBook

Key Directions in Legal Education identifies and explores key contemporary and emerging themes that are significant and heavily debated within legal education from both UK and international perspectives. It provides a rich comparative dialogue and insights into the current and future directions of legal education.

The book discusses in detail topics including the pressures on law schools exerted by external stakeholders, the fostering of interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration within legal education and the evolution of discourses around teaching and learning legal skills. It elaborates on the continuing development of clinical legal education as a component of the law degree and the emergence and use of innovative technologies within law teaching. The approach of pairing UK and international authors to obtain comparative insights and analysis on a range of key themes is original and provides both a genuine comparative dialogue and a clear international focus.

This book will be of great interest for researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the field of law and legal pedagogy.

About the author

Emma Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of Law, The University of Sheffield, UK, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.

Fiona Cownie is Professor of Law Emerita in the School of Law, Keele University, UK, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London University, UK.